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Ariel Mods ([personal profile] arielmods) wrote in [community profile] ariel_ooc2012-10-13 05:53 pm
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Test Drive Meme: The Overflow

PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR THREADS OVER AT THE LATEST OVERFLOW POST, THANK YOU.


CITY OF ARIEL: THE TEST DRIVE
THE OVERFLOW


Since the last post is fast approaching 3k comments and getting laggy for some of our players, we have decided to go ahead and stick up the overflow post. Please continue your threads or start new ones here if you'd like. To make this easier on those continuing threads from the last meme, here's a handy form:



Please remember to let your thread partners know you've bumped your threads over here as well! We started the meme early to give you plenty of room to do just that.

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With the City of Ariel grand opening only a month away, we are holding our first ever test drive meme. Tag in and see how your character would settle in the game. You're a fresh face in the city, newly processed, and arriving at a bustling time. The city is expanding and you are greeted first in the re-education center by your helpful counselors and then directed out of the building to a large festival.

Be puzzled, make friends, have sex, or whatever you want! There are no restrictions on thread types played out here.
Your first awareness that something has gone wrong comes during a groggy moment of semi-lucidity when you look around yourself and find that -- instead of wherever you remember being last -- you're in a chair, in a room with a man you don't recognize. He's sitting behind a desk whistling to himself and sorting paperwork. The whole atmosphere might remind you of a high school guidance counselor's office, only with far more comfortable chairs.

When your head clears enough to speak and you ask him where you are, he smiles brightly and says, "Welcome to the City of Ariel."

You were brought to Ariel during a very special time! There's a large festival going on celebrating the new expansions to the city and everything is decked out for it. Everything is bustling and vibrant in the city today because of the celebrations. There are decorations up, food vendors set up all along the streets, kissing booths, games, and just about anything else you can imagine an event like this would have!

The people of Ariel are out and about as well, some are in vibrant costumes and others are just checking out the sights. Some of the more exhibitionist types are even having a little more fun out in public than you may be used to seeing back home.

As soon as the grogginess from your arrival passes, you are allowed to leave the re-education center and see it all for yourself. Upon exiting, you are even handed beads of various colors, several of each so you don't worry about running out.

Each color has a special meaning listed below:
pink - toys
blue - oral
yellow - watersports
green - age play
lavender - crossdressing
orange - multiples
grey - bondage
white - hands (mutual masturbation, fingering, handjob)
red - blood
black - wildcard

These are to aid you in making a connection with others. Show your interest in others and tell them exactly what you would like to do with them by sharing the beads.

If you would rather take a different approach, feel free to walk around the festival and see what (or who) catches your eye. The point is to relax and get settled in your new home.

TAG IN
- Post your character's name, canon, and preferences.
- Set up an opener in your comment or leave it blank.
- Tag around and have fun!
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[Locations]
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[Taken]
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[Reserves]
[Application]
[Main]
[Logs]
[OOC]


Please note that all CR in this meme can be carried over when the game starts between characters that are accepted into the game.

Threads can also count towards third and first person samples on the application, just provide links.

Take a look at our OOC Meet and Greet post! Meet. Greet. Make friends. Have fun!
paradice: ([wonder] what's going on up there?)

[personal profile] paradice 2012-10-21 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur's attention sharpens. It's almost as if Joscelin knows he's dreaming. Because this has to be a dream, right?]

Interesting. Has anything like that ever happened before?
protectandserve: (puzzlement)

[personal profile] protectandserve 2012-10-21 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[This feels far too coherent to be a dream, though he has had dreams where he's had to search through the City for Phedre before.]

Not that I recall.
paradice: ([serious] thinking)

[personal profile] paradice 2012-10-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[That's not entirely unexpected. In fact, it's kind of the point, at least where Arthur's job is concerned.]

I wonder why someone would bring us here.

[He really means why someone would put him and Joscelin, who is either an extremely well-crafted forgery or completely delusional, under at the same time. How they got ahold of the two of them.]
protectandserve: (srs face)

[personal profile] protectandserve 2012-10-21 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I knew why I was here, but it seems to grow less likely.
noilikegirls: (super blush)

[personal profile] noilikegirls 2012-10-21 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Cute?

[ damn, he could not get the red off his face after being called cute for blushing, it was like an embarrassing cycle of internal flailing and blood rushing to his cheeks. ]

You're very pretty... for a guy. [ That wasn't too weird to say, was it? ]
paradice: (Default)

[personal profile] paradice 2012-10-21 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur raises his eyebrow, encouraging Joscelin to continue. After all, it's part of his job to gather information. Even from people who think they're from magic lands.]
protectandserve: (stubborn)

[personal profile] protectandserve 2012-10-21 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
I was drugged. I thought I had been sent here to separate me from my ward- I do not know how long I have been unconscious.
decks: (0 0 8)

haruno sakura | naruto | ota

[personal profile] decks 2012-10-21 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[This is a genjutsu, Sakura is certain of it.

Not that she has any empirical proof—release jutsu didn't work, she can't sense chakra, there's nothing that hints at her attacker or their motive—but it's the simplest and most comprehensive answer to her questions, such as Where am I? and How did I get here? Occam's Razor. What else could it possibly be? She gives no credit to the answers she got when she first "woke up," largely because it was the most ludicrous thing she's ever heard.

She runs her finger behind her right ear, tracing that fresh scar, and knows that she could have healed a surgical incision like that until the skin looked nearly flawless.

It's disturbing, the things they told her, but this disturbs her too: her chakra's closed off from her somehow, inaccessible, and to her that absence is like phantom discomfort from an amputated limb.

Walking through the choked streets, she's equally as bright as any of the locals around her, but that's product of chance. She was born with hair that color, just happened to be wearing that cherry red shirt; there's nothing in her posture or expression that suggests revelry. Wary and tense, she's looking up above any of the festivities: looking for the easiest way to get up to the roofs, in fact, so she can get a better sense of the place.]


[ooc: i don't know, this is desu's doing. i'm open to most things: no yellow beads, pls, and i have a kinks list here. she's not the casual hook-up type and is generally not inclined to do what she's told by the city, so she'll be recalcitrant about having sex unless you're sasuke? that said i'm open to smut (f/m or f/f), so leave me a tag and/or pm me and we'll see what we can work out!

oh, and i can do action or prose, whatever you prefer.]
paradice: (Default)

[personal profile] paradice 2012-10-21 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
I see. Your ward? Was that who you thought you saw here?

[Arthur remembers very well what Joscelin said when they first got here.]
wiles: (& the song of cherry blossoms)

[personal profile] wiles 2012-10-21 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ with that pan out of the way, he can get a better look at her without too much worry of getting whacked without so much as a second thought. ]

Oh, you're here with someone else?

[ a friend? significant other? something else entirely, maybe? color him honestly curious. ]

I didn't think that anyone had showed up here in pairs...

[ how lucky for this girl, if that's that case. ]
dawning: (☆ h-hey what's this?)

Dawn | Pokemon Platinum | ota

[personal profile] dawning 2012-10-21 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dawn's just a bit bewildered at suddenly finding herself here. One thing's for certain though: this place is definitely nowhere near home, not with people being so... open. Like the couple she's watching right now, her mouth hanging wide open.

She feels like she should say something, but no one else seems to be batting an eye. But maybe, just maybe, she's misinterpretating the situation? Or has she just gone crazy? She certainly feels a little crazy right now, and the atmosphere of this festival isn't helping...

So she grabs the arm of the nearest person, blushing as she points to the couple before them.
]

U-um, s-sorry, but um-- Can I ask what do you see over there?
protectandserve: (slightly sidelong)

[personal profile] protectandserve 2012-10-21 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. I fear we have been separated, but I had hoped that, in spite of... other matters, the Shahrizai woman would have sent her with me.
paradice: ([lineface] it figures)

[personal profile] paradice 2012-10-21 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
That seems rather optimistic.

[He has very little to go on, of course.]
protectandserve: (Default)

[personal profile] protectandserve 2012-10-21 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
I would choose hope over despair.

[But he knows the odds are slim.]
wiles: (& (one step closer))

[personal profile] wiles 2012-10-21 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, really cute.

[ the more he blushed, the more that he would get teased and flirted with.

but Kanji's words take him by a surprise; something that he really hadn't been expecting to hear. plenty of people had called him that - pretty, beautiful, cute, attractive. but he wasn't used to it.

and his cheeks flush a light red. hot and warm and he looks away. averting his attention elsewhere. ]


Do...you really think so? [ aah - whatever he says is mumbled; a quiet word of thanks? probably. possibly. it had to have been. but he's going to push the subject forward; hurry it up a bit so they aren't both just sitting there looking like a bunch of embarrassed fools: ]

Maybe we should go somewhere less crowded?
paradice: ([shall we?] paradoxical architecture)

[personal profile] paradice 2012-10-21 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well. I hope for your sake, you find the answers you seek.

[He isn't hopeful. But he also doesn't think Joscelin is the answer to his own questions.]
protectandserve: (srs face)

[personal profile] protectandserve 2012-10-21 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
Likewise.

[He bows politely, arms crossed over his chest.]
keepsthefire: (pic#4232302)

Rin Okumura | Ao no Exorcist | OTA

[personal profile] keepsthefire 2012-10-21 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[There was a tiny, itty bit little part of Rin's not-always-intelligent brain that seemed to think that really, he should have been more freaked out than he was. This wasn't True Cross Campus. Yukio wasn't there. The other Exwires weren't there. Hell, as far as he could see, amongst all the vibrant colors and decorations, there weren't any exorcists at all.

But for some reason the idea of getting dragged to another world wasn't all that disconcerting. It wasn't Gehenna, so that was a big fat huge plus in his book.

And sure maybe it was the festival atmosphere that was throwing him off and making him more excited than he normally would have been, and sure that shine would wear off soon enough and he'd start questioning everything.

But for now, for one tailed half-demon teenager, it was all about newness of it all, and should anyone run in to him (or have him run in to them) they would likely do so when he was darting from booth to booth, looking at all the little trinkets and doo-dads and games with a whole lot of excitement.]


(ooc:F-List was down when I went to make my permissions post, so just drop me a line if you want to ask any specifics. For when I do get it up, I have a handy little index that has a link to it!)
Edited 2012-10-21 02:59 (UTC)
paradice: (Default)

[personal profile] paradice 2012-10-21 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Arthur raises an eyebrow at the bow, but he nods slightly.]

Good evening.
noblesnow: Reika looking resigned, with Nao clinging to her waist ((R) this happens every sunday at 8:40)

[personal profile] noblesnow 2012-10-21 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
A bit smaller, fortunately, and much more ridiculous.

[The narration would like to apologize for the possible disappointment.]
noilikegirls: (no homo)

[personal profile] noilikegirls 2012-10-21 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kanji nods vigorously and clenches his fists the moment he sees color spring under those fair cheeks. Now he's even prettier. Cute even and there's nothing more that Kanji loves than cute things. The fact that Izanami happens to be male just makes him easier to approach. ]

You know a place?
eternalscorpion: (Narrow Eyed)

/flailing

[personal profile] eternalscorpion 2012-10-21 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
The rest of the world might as well have been monochrome in comparison when Sasori caught sight of a flash of pink and red in the crowd. The vibrancy of the degenerates flirting and fucking in the streets receded completely in favor of the firm back and knotted shoulders that had burned their way into his memory despite the brief time that he'd known this girl, an absolute and permanent fixture of his psyche just as the chip crooning subconscious filth in the back of his mind now was.

Just as her eyes had, hard and determined. Just as that grin when she'd smashed his life's work to pieces with her bare hands had, a twist of the lips that hinted at a touch too much satisfaction with inflicting such wanton destruction than would be expected from a supposed medic. No matter when or where, he'd never mistake Sakura for anyone else.

It was only a pity that he didn't have a blade at hand to slip between the tense shoulderblades before him, but perhaps the tone of his voice might suffice just as well.

"Well now. I didn't expect to see you in Hell this soon, little girl," he said, fingers slipping away from his straw hat's tassel, fingers that had kept its tiny bell silent during his approach.
wiles: (& and all along i believed)

[personal profile] wiles 2012-10-21 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ he doesn't think much of it when he speaks, his voice well-trained to keep even and not show the slight hint of flushed embarrassment he was feeling: ]

From what I recall, we've been given our own little hole in the wall to live in. [ he reaches up, tucking some hair behind his ear. ] I haven't been there yet, myself, but...we could go to my place?

[ he offers a smile - inviting. ]

Would that be fine with you?
noblesnow: Reika smiling ((R) Is that so?)

sorry for late

[personal profile] noblesnow 2012-10-21 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Of course! And Reika needs to do her part to help. What kind of heroine would she be if she focused entirely on fighting bad guys and didn't help out with long-term issues like that?

Reika's feeling a bit warm, too, or is that just Umi's body heat? Well, the realization that that's actually debatable definitely makes her feel a bit warm. --But it's fine, right? Surely Umi would speak up if Reika was doing anything she shouldn't. "We'll have to be careful. There's probably more to this than just putting us all in a city together."
dragon_blossom: (pic#1961972)

happens

[personal profile] dragon_blossom 2012-10-21 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
The real heroes are... people who have babies? Umi's not sure if that's right at all. The real heroes are supposed to be cops and firefighters and stuff, but babies are good too.

Reika's not doing anything uncomfortable. In fact it's... nice. Sitting together, close with someone, a new friend, just enjoying their company. You don't just enjoy a friend's company with an arm around them, though, down around her waist. "Yeah... who knows what kind of... what kind of tricks they've got."